I Can't Believe I'm Writing This Linux Article About Loving the Xfce DE

> Every time I looked at screenshots of Xfce, though — even from the official website — I was reminded of something from the days of Windows 2000. Grey. Archaic. Uninteresting.

Oh, the horrors of being reminded of a well designed interface with subtle 3D cues. Buttons have the audacity to look clickable!

Right, what's with the want of change for the sake of change? I can't see how "Grey. Archaic. Uninteresting." are issues.

Ubuntu lost me when they started with Unity. Xfce works the way I would expect and generally gets out of my road.

Me too, I used 10.04(i think), the last gnome version until the repo stopped updating. Linux Mint has been my desktop of choice ever since. With their MATE and Cinnamon version looking like a DESKTOP and everything works out of the box its win/win. In 2010~ every one lost their collective mind when it comes to UI.

I used gnome2 first then xfce (loved it) and finally awesomewm (best for my uses, big screen, love the auto tiling)

I was so used to awesomewm that I couldn't grasp why i3 was any better if so.

XFCE4 is the best DE I've used so far.

configuring tiling looks a little over complicated in the writeups.